Smallholders can sell eggs direct

Producers with fewer than 50 birds are not required to mark their eggs – so long as they provide other information such as their name and address and provide consumer advice to keep eggs chilled after purchase along with a best before date (maximum 28 days from lay) for the eggs at the point of sale.

I heard on the radio today that perhaps we have become too urbanised and should move back to being more of a smallholding society.

What does that mean to me? It doesn’t mean getting land – but a change of attitude.

I was brought up in a council house in an area of deprivation, but we ate potatoes that were grown in the garden, and got eggs from our neighbour who had batam hens. We picked and ate bramble jam and nettle soup. To me that is smallholding.